Colm Mac Confhaola, one of eTeams’ Irish linguists, has been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas na Gaeilge Literary award for his recently-published novel, “Aoibhinn Beatha an Scoláire”.

The Oireachtas na Gaeilge Literary Competition, in its’ 112th year, is the most prestigious Irish language literary competition in the country.  Previous winners include some of Ireland’s most celebrated authors including Pádraig Mac Piarais, Máirtín Ó Cadhain & Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

Nana Luke, managing director of eTeams said, “We are very proud to have an award-winning, Irish author as a member of our team!  Colm’s achievement shows the subtlety and beauty of the Irish language when written by one of Ireland’s best linguists”.

Colm has written four novels and a play, to date.  His play, entitled, “Faolchoin na Saoirse (The Wolves of Freedom) picked up an Oireachtas prize whilst his first novel, “Ceol an Phíobaire”, published in 1997, also won the Oireachtas Prize.  His other novels include, “Cogadh 'gus Cathú” (War and Temptation (or War and Regret)), “Díoltas Millteach Scoir” (Ferocious Final Vengeance) and “Aoibhinn Beatha an Scoláire” (Happy is the Student's Life), which scooped his third Oireachtas prize.

The Award was presented to Colm at a gala function in Croke Park Conference Centre on 28^th September 2010. 

eTeams is proud to announce that its eTeamsCONNECT Service uses datadock (www.datadock.eu), Europe’s Greenest Data Centre.  datadock has already won the eco Award 2010 from the German Internet Association and has also received the highest rating of five stars in the independent Datacentre Star Audit.  Located in Strasbourg, datadock uses a redundant 100Gbit backbone for speed and the availability of our clients’ information.

This is one example of eTeams’ commitment to the environment. We recognise that environmental issues are of fundamental importance in a successful and responsible business strategy.  We are committed to sustain and protect the environment and accept that we have both a moral and social responsibility for implementing environmental measures that go beyond legislative requirements. This responsibility is taken seriously and the Company invests, time, effort and money in ensuring that our aims are achieved.

We will take any reasonably practicable steps to prevent, minimise or render harmless the effect of process operations, activities and products on the environment.  We have introduced both an Environmental Policy and Sustainability Policy, the principles of which are:

• To comply with and exceed, where possible, current legislation, codes of practice and regulations
• To ensure all our staff are made aware of and committed to implementing and improving our Sustainability policy
• To integrate the philosophy of sustainability into our business management in a way that enables all people to realise their potential and improve their quality of life whilst protecting and enhancing the earth’s natural resources
• To minimise the impact on sustainability of all our business activities, i.e. delivery of services, transport, waste management, energy, etc
• To play a proactive role in promoting sustainability practices with our clients and suppliers by making them aware of our Sustainability policy and encouraging them to adopt sound sustainable management practices
• To review and continually strive to improve our sustainability performance

For further information on eTeams’ Environmental and Sustainability Policies, please contact Caroline Evans on +353 (0) 61 921 121.

eTeams is delighted to announce that we have been nominated as one of three Finalists for the FBD Clare Professional Services Excellence Award.

The FBD Clare Business Awards 2010, in association with Ennis Chamber, is a new, key event in County Clare’s business calendar and consists of 9 Award categories.  This new initiative recognises examples of business excellence throughout County Clare and pays tribute to the talent, dynamism and innovation that can be found across the County.

Specifically, the FBD Clare Professional Services Award is open to all businesses in the professional services sector that can demonstrate excellence in business practice across the full range of their activities.

Judges of this Award were looking for:

• Robust and sustainable management systems and procedures
• Clear evidence of ongoing employee development
• A planned growth strategy in terms of all areas of the business and suitability to service users
• Evidence of a customer-focused culture that is reinforced at all levels of the business

The winner of each category will be announced at a high-profile Awards evening on 30^th September 2010 which will include guest speakers and video clips of the finalists.

Nana Luke, Managing Director of eTeams commented, “I am absolutely delighted that eTeams has been nominated as one of the Finalists for this Award.  We are very proud that a small company such as ours has been recognised for the consistently high quality of our services and also for the contribution we are making to our local and wider economy, with our team of global linguists”. 

eTeams uses an independent audit institution to cover both standards.  The audit for ISO9001:2008 certification covers our entire quality management system throughout the company while the EN15038:2006 audit covers the core translation process and all other related aspects involved in providing this service, including quality assurance and traceability.

Specifically, the scores given were 93% for ISO 9001:2008 and 85% for EN 15038, both rated as Very Good.

Nana Luke, eTeams Managing Director, commented “An external audit across the whole company is an important differentiator for eTeams. This is in comparison to some companies that may limit the scope of external audits to some offices or divisions or use internal auditing procedures. I am delighted with this result which validates our focus on quality”.